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Title: PUBLIC CLEANSING FILMS: Kitchen Waste and Garden Refuse

Reference number: 7012

Date: 1955*

Director: [filmed by unidentified employees of Falkirk Town Council]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.53 mins

Description: Collection of film shot by unidentified employee of the workings of the Town Council's sanitary dept. This particular reel contains two 'Public Cleansing Films' that introduce the job of clearing kitchen waste and garden refuse.

See also refs 3339 7011 T2262 and 7672.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted with aid of donor's notes]

[Reel 4]
[1955*] A Public Cleansing Film. Kitchen waste gv's street scape with pails of food scraps on pavement (0.40) Collection Refuse collection vehicles empty pails. (1.22) Disposal Arriving at depot. Waste emptied into pig food troughs (2.14) The End (2.21) [blank] A Public Cleansing Film Garden Refuse Gv's buckets and sacks of garden refuse (3.14) Collection Refuse vehicles arrive, collect waste (3.44) Disposal Trucks arrive at tip site and off load (5.25) The End (5.34) shot of man carefully laying squares of turf (5.54) [blank] (5.57) gv's man hosing down pavements (6.53)

[see also refs 3339, 7010 and 7011]